In 1822, the vessel ‘Racehorse’ was lost off Langness on the Skerranes, about two miles out to sea. The night of the wreck was one of thick darkness, and there …
June 2014
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I have heard an old story that long ago there used to be a great deal of kids on the top of the mountains or on the headlands of the …
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“Big Robin, big Robin, take a smoke, take a smoke, take a smoke.” “I have no smoke, I have no smoke.” “Buy, buy, buy.” “I have not a penny, I …
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At a certain time of the year, the young men and young women of the Isle of Man were summoned to Castletown and the Governor, deemsters (judges), coroners (who carried …
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Oh! lament for the days that are past and gone, When the sun of glory bright, On the fairest Isle of the ocean shone With freedom’s holy light; When the …
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Saint Conan (7th century – January, 684), also rarely known as Saint Mochonna, was a bishop of the Isle of Man and an Irish missionary. Extract from a report by …
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The Isle of man is full of Fairy lore. A good Manxman does not speak of fairies — the word ‘ferrish’, a corruption of the English, did not exist in …
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There was a curious belief that the cats of the Isle of Man had a king of their own who lived as an ordinary house-cat during the day but at …